Uropeltis beddomii (GÜNTHER, 1862)
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Higher Taxa | Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Beddome's Earth Snake |
Synonym | Silybura beddomii GÜNTHER 1862 Silybura beddomii — BEDDOME 1864: 179 Silybura beddomii — BOULENGER 1893: 153 Uropeltis beddomei SMITH 1943 (nom. subst. pro Silybura beddomii) Uropeltis beddomii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 142 Uropeltis beddomii — DAS 2003 Uropeltis beddomii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 779 |
Distribution | S India (Anaimalai Hills, Kerala)
Type locality: "Anamallay Hills.
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Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.13—1946.1.16.15. |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1816 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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Etymology | Named after Richard Henry Beddome, 1830–1911, British army officer and botanist. |
References |
- Beddome, R.H. 1864. Description of new species of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 177-180 - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
- Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - get paper here
- Günther, ALBERT 1862. On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 9: 52-67. - get paper here
- McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
- Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here
- Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
- Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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